So I finish the install up to the finalization portion, and I go to set up the network and it states that it failed due to the folder being unwriteable. I check the root folder as root, it says the same thing. All the permissions from ls -af show that there is nothing wrong, but I can't write anything. What did I do wrong and how do I fix this?

One possibility is that you suffered hardware failure or something got corrupt on disk and the kernel remounted your disk read only.
If you type 'dmesg' you should not see lines indicating errors reading or writing on the disk.

If you do see disk errors, likely it's time to start over. If you didn't see any errors, perhaps the disk never got remounted read-write, read the bootup log carefully to see if there are any errors that caused the system to feel unsafe to make the disk writeable (did a hard reboot without shutdown and didn't go through a filesystem check on a non-journalling filesystem?).

Ultimately if you don't know exactly what the point it first failed, you should reinstall as the state of the disk is now unknown.

Either way, you can use smartmon -a /dev/disk_device to see what the disk reports as the issue.

If the disk reports problems you may try running badblocks to completely overwrite the disk and start over. Depending on the severity of the failure, you might get a few more years out of the disk or it's time for the trash. Let us know what you find, that will probably determine the best course of action._________________Intel Core i7 2700K@ 4.1GHz/HD3000 graphics/8GB DDR3/180GB SSDWhat am I supposed watching?